Joey Sneddon writes that Microsoft has released Power``Shell Core as a Snap. This will allow users and admins on various Linux distros to run the latest Power``shell. Joey quickly reminds us what PowerShell is, links to more information, and tells us how to run or test it.

Joey Sneddon writes that Microsoft has released Power``Shell Core as a Snap. This will allow users and admins on various Linux distros to run the latest Power``Shell. Joey quickly reminds us what Power''Shell is, links to more information, and tells us how to run or test it.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 537 for the week of July 15 - 21, 2018.

In this Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) End of Life reached on July 19 2018

Adam Conrad announces that Ubuntu 17.10 is now End of Life. This means there will be no further updates and it will soon be archived to old-releases.ubuntu.com. Adam advises that the supported upgrade path is to 18.04 and links to more information on it.

The Hub

This week in Mir (20th July, 2018)

William Wold (wmww) gives this week’s status, reporting on developer documentation and updates to the Mir kiosk apps as well as continuing work on the stable XDG shell protocol. Marius Gripsgård (mariogrip) is collaborating to add XWayland support to Mir.

The Planet

This Week in Lubuntu Development #7

Simon Quigley updates us on the progress made by the Lubuntu team. It includes a list of work done on artwork, seed, Calamares, desktop, and more - with links to more details. He asks for help in testing the LTS to LTS upgrade path before 18.04.1 comes out later this month. Simon also specifically mentions the 32-bit images the flavor still produces, asking for help in testing it as well - otherwise this may change.

In the Blogosphere

Catfish Search Utility Joins The Xfce Project

Michael Larabel reminds us what Catfish is, that it is now under the Xfce umbrella, and that version 1.4.6 has also been released - including a number of improvements and bug fixes. He links to the release announcement and notes the Xfce 4.14 release will probably occur next year.

Lubuntu Needs Help Testing For 32-bit x86 Support To Continue

Michael Larabel reminds us that Lubuntu is one of a few Ubuntu flavors still offering 32-bit images and relays a call for help in testing them, since otherwise this may change. He links to the latest Lubuntu development update including this topic.

Marius Nestor writes that Dimitri John Ledkov of Canonical has called for testing of the improved Ubuntu Server installer included in the Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS release soon to be released. The server team are looking for crash and critical bug reports related to the installer, requesting testing of LVM/RAID, vlans and bonds support using end-user setups. Marius observes not all intended server installer improvements will be seen until the 18.10 release.

Michael Larabel reports of the two listed bug fixes: Vulkan direct-to-display, and multi-threaded EGL. Michael gives amplifying info on the improvements and reminds us that the Vulkan beta driver with the newest extensions remains on version 396.24.10, awaiting the move to a new mainline driver series.

Microsoft Brings PowerShell to the Ubuntu Snap Store

Joey Sneddon writes that Microsoft has released PowerShell Core as a Snap. This will allow users and admins on various Linux distros to run the latest PowerShell. Joey quickly reminds us what PowerShell is, links to more information, and tells us how to run or test it.

GNOME 3.29.4 Released As Another Step Towards GNOME 3.30

Michael Larabel writes that GNOME 3.29.4 is released on the road to the anticipated September release of 3.30. He gives a summary of the changes, updates, and various improvements. Michael links to the release announcement and gives the schedule towards GNOME 3.30.

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Podcast: S11E19 – Nineteen Minutes

“This week we recover from a failed disk in a ReadyNAS and get to grips with the Amazon Kindle Oasis E-reader. npm gets pwned, Debian 9.5 is released, the Snap Store get verified publishers, categories and other improvements. Humble Bundle offer a Linux Geek Book Bundle, we also round up the community news and events.”

Glossary of Terms

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